The Impacts of Social Media On Modern Life
Bacon said: “The power of knowledge depends not only on the size of their intrinsic value , but also
whether it is spread, and the depth and breadth of the spread.”
With the rapid development of Modern media, There is a greatly change in the book, highlighting
the features and functions of media culture, which opened a media age. Today , newspapers, radio,
television, books , the Internet and other media permeated all levels of society and all corners. It just
likes air filled in which our social life and provides us with knowledge and great opportunities to follow
up with the changes of world.
The mass media, especially newspapers, television and other media is so related our work, lives.
For example, a staff member of the executive authorities, during a day, he must first read a stack of
newspapers, magazines on the table to understand the higher Party committees, the government’s
latest job trends, to learn the country’s main international and local news. At same time, he will read
his favorite articles to enhance his theoretical level, knowledge, literacy and leadership skills, which
also strive to improve his quality of life. At night, he will spend two or three hours on TV program or
Internet to further enrich their cultural life or further broaden their horizons, gaining the necessary
information. So 24 hours a day, a party and government cadres must be at least 5-
6 hours in contact with the mass media, which we can see the importance of social medium. Even an
ordinary citizen, after a long day, also needs to take some entertainments to relax. Take the newspaper
for example, the demand of this has been rising rapidly. According to a unified data, it shows that
Shanghai’s “story” circulation attaches to 6.5 million copies, “Jingu legend” release a capacity of 2
million copies, and Beijing’s “Woodpecker” achieves 175 million copies. These huge circulation of these
popular literature shows that there is a huge supporting group for social media .
So, Why the media occupied such an important position in our life? I think there are several answers:
First, the news media help us understand the trends and changes in the outside world; the second is
the media gives us the ability to understand and transform the world; the third is to provide useful
information for us, which can help us arrange our daily life; four is the media provide us with cultural
enjoyment, which can enrich our spiritual world; five is the medium for us entertainment, so that we
can get relaxed and to rest. All of these shows the importance and usefulness of social media.
In fact, what social media provided us not only with the media service, it also with a transforming power,
which have an important impact on our consciousness and behavior.